UNESCO World Heritage recognition has been given to seven new areas as World Heritage, following IUCN advice. Africa shone ...

T he United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has named 26 new sites to the World Heritage ...

Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants managed to people the rest of the world ...

Bears are symbols of power and resilience. Birds are symbols of freedom and mystery. At first glance, these two creatures ...

Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...

UNESCO removes Rainforests of Atsinanana, Abu Mena, & Old Town of Ghadamès from its World Heritage in Danger list after ...

Explore the 26 new UNESCO World Heritage sites of 2024—ancient forts, fairy tombs, rainforests, and more—plus key expansions ...

New Delhi, The World Heritage Committee has removed three African heritage sites in Madagascar, Egypt and Libya from UNESCO’s ...

The sites taken off the danger list are the Rainforests of the Atsinanana in Madagascar, Abu Mena in Egypt, and the Old Town ...

Mount Mulanje in Malawi, Diy-Gid-Biy cultural landscape in Cameroon and Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau take their place ...

Tommy Garnett's conservation efforts saved Tiwai island, securing its UNESCO World Heritage status, preserving biodiversity and wildlife.

In recent years, UNESCO has made considerable and targeted efforts to support its African Member States. Since 2021, three ...